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Skilled Volunteer Plan Wins Deakin Innovation Competition

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 12th November 2013 - A multi-faceted campaign to attract and retain retired engineers as volunteers has won the top prize for a group of post-graduate students from Deakin University in a competition…

Good Fit for Change in Western Sydney

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 12th November 2013 - A fashion-based social enterprise model that has proven a massive success in Melbourne has landed in Sydney and is proving a success in its own right. Linda Jackson, Ken Done, The Social…

Volunteer Management Special Interest Group

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 6th November 2013 - The Victoria’s peak body for volunteering has worked with volunteering leaders across the state to launch a Volunteer Management Special Interest Group. To mark International…

Melbourne Awards Highlight NFPs

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 6th November 2013 - Not for Profit leaders and organisations have featured among the shortlisted finalists for the 2013 Melbourne Awards. Contribution to Community by an Individual nominee Chris …

Collaboration Key to Reform Victorian Community Sector

Staff Reporter, Friday, 1st November 2013 - Government and the community sector will come together to form the new Victorian Community Sector Reform Council which will examine ways to best meet the needs of an ageing and growing…

Australian First in Regulating Gambling

Staff Reporter, Friday, 1st November 2013 - New legislation will make Victoria the first jurisdiction to require pre-commitment technology on every Victorian electronic gaming machine. The Coalition Government has introduced…

Disability App ‘Out & About’

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 31st October 2013 - Aged and disability services Not for Profit, Villa Maria is to launch what it describes as a ground-breaking iPhone app to help people with disability or mobility issues and their…

Spotlight

Flushed with Success

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 30th October 2013 - In this week’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise, journalist Nadia Boyce speaks to a serial social entrepreneur turning the world of toilet paper on its head. A Melbourne social…

Analysis

Measuring Social Outcomes Conference Review

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 24th October 2013 - The recent Measuring Social Outcomes Conference brought together a number of prominent speakers and thought leaders to discuss complex issues around outcome measurement. Business…

Volunteering Vic Flags Plans for Change

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 24th October 2013 - Victoria’s peak body for volunteering has foreshadowed the adoption of a new governance model, including a new constitution and a new membership model for the organisation,…

Opinion

‘Homesick’ Doco Turns to Crowdfunding

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 24th October 2013 - Funding the final stages of a documentary around the controversial issues homelessness and moving from the chaos and violent world of rooming houses to find a place to call home is …

Government Funds Dry Up for Youth Projects

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 23rd October 2013 - A nationally recognised youth-transition-to-employment Not for Profit, Youth Connect may have to shut down three of its major projects because of changes to Federal and State funding…

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